Munich, 21. August 2000 / BILD - Page 3

 Resident from Munich ran away from India

 - Guru all of a sudden wants Sex

 by  Wolfgang Ranft

 MUNICH - Jens Sethi was young, naive, full of religious expectations. In 1988 this resident from Munich who worked that time in a printing office travelled to India the land of the hinduistic Gurus. The 24-year-old man was looking for new spiritual fulfilment.

He found, what he was looking for. Sethi succumbed to the fascination of a Guru who was already 62-years old that time: Sathya Sai Baba.

"I was totally fascinated by the Aura of Sai Baba", he says today. "I surrendered in a way that I was mainly concentrating on him."

Every year he  travelled together with his wife for four or six weeks to the Ashram of Sai Baba. During the festival time more than 20 000 devotees gather there. The fascination remained for Sethi just a external moment as he never could approach the Guru during the first years.

 This happened only in October 1996 when Sethi finally decided to go to India where he settled down in Puttaparthi close to the Ashram. During the daily pilgrim-meeting he was called for an interview by the Guru, the utmost a

pilgrim can expect within the Ashram.

 Sethi enjoyed his good luck. He, one of those rare devotees, who has been personally selected by the Guru. But the conversation took a different course than he expected. Sethi appeared together with his wife. The Guru was outraged and has sent the woman away. 

Alone in the room the old man started to kiss the man from Munich, stroke him and went into the trousers.

Shocked but still full of faith and naivety Sethi accepted two other meetings some month later. Again the Guru kissed him and finally touched his genitals.

 Only then the young man ran away back to Germany. It took him three years to overcome the crisis and to seperate himself mentally from his spiritual guide.

During that time he did investigations in the internet and came to know about other young men from UK, Sweden, USA who underwent a fate of similar experiences.

Only this summer he did the final step to escape from the spell under the Guru: He brought a charge against Sathya Sai Baba at the public prosecutor´s office in Munich - because of sexual molestation.